Old Church of St Pancras
OLD CHURCH OF ST PANCRAS, PANCRAS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1113246
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Old Church of St Pancras
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CHURCH OF ST PANCRAS, PANCRAS ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1113246
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Old Church of St Pancras
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CHURCH OF ST PANCRAS, PANCRAS ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CHURCH OF ST PANCRAS, PANCRAS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29786 83438
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2983SE PANCRAS ROAD
798-1/84/1267 (East side)
10/06/54 Old Church Of St Pancras
GV II*
Church. C11 core with later medieval additions. Rebuilt and
enlarged 1847-8 by AD Gough and RL Roumieu who extended the
nave westwards. They destroyed the south porch and west tower,
replacing them with a new vestry on the north and the south
tower. Further restoration in 1871 and 1888 by AW Blomfield
who remodelled in 'Norman' style. Further restored c1925 and
in 1979-80 by Erith and Terry. Coarsed rubble with stone
dressings and flint east facade; pantiled and slated roofs.
Rectangular, aisleless plan.
EXTERIOR: nave with 5 windows plus 3 window C19 extension. 3
window chancel. Western porch with moulding carved in C19
Romanesque style, flanked by round-arched lancets with
hoodmoulds with labelstops forming strings at the angles and
continuing around the nave over similar windows. Continuous
sill string. Traceried oculus above the porch. North and south
elevations of extension with Lombard frieze at eaves level.
Chancel with some remains of Romanesque work in north and
south doorways and in part of a C13 lancet window;
square-headed east window of 4 segmental-arched lights, in
slightly projecting gabled bay. South tower in 3 stages:
setback buttresses flanking a round-arched lancet;
round-arched recess with clock above 2 arches to blind
arcading; half-timbered belfry with louvred panels and tiled
roof with projecting eaves.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted to contain some C16-19
monuments and a C6 altar-stone.
HISTORICAL NOTE: by origin one of the very oldest churches in
London, though much rebuilt, after the building in 1822 of St
Pancras (New) Church, Upper Woburn Place (qv), the old church
became a chapel of ease but in 1863 was reinstated as a parish
church.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town
(St Pancras II): London: -1938: 73-95; RCHME: London: Vol II,
West London: London: -1925: 88-89; Clarke B: Parish Churches
of London: London: -1966: 136-7).
Listing NGR: TQ2978683438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Old St Pancras and Kentish Town The Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Volume 19 , (1938), 73-95
Other
Inventory of the historical monuments in London Volume 2 West London excluding Westminster Abbey, (1925)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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